Notes:
The summary report, “Understanding Earth’s Polar Challenges” was presented to Arctic Science Summit Week 2011, organized by the Korea Polar Research Institute in Seoul, Republic of Korea, 28 March to 1 April. The main theme of the Summit was “The Arctic: New Frontier For Global Sciences”.
It will also be submitted to the Arctic Council Ministerial meeting in Nuuk, Greenland in May 2011; at the 34th Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting in Buenos Aires, Argentina in June 2011. Polar researchers and policy makers will meet again in April in Montreal, Canada in April 2012 for a final IPY conference on ‘Knowledge to Action’.
The digital version of the International Polar Year Joint Committee’s summary will be disseminated by the University of the Arctic and used as basic course material for many local universities and colleges within the University of the Arctic and International Antarctic Institute systems.
The published volume produced by the Canadian Circumpolar Institute in Edmonton, Canada, in collaboration with the University of the Arctic will be released in May 2011.
The International Polar Year (IPY) 2007–2008 followed in the footsteps of its predecessors, the first International Polar Year 1882–1883, the second International Polar Year 1932–1933 and the International Geophysical Year 1957–1958.
Source: WMO/ICSU Press Release dated March 28, 2011.
